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Verisign’s Personal Identity Portal Is Half Way To Password Bliss

Verisign’s new Personal Identity Portal (PIP from now on) isn’t the sexiest application out there to help you manage passwords. But it has Verisign’s strong reputation for security behind it, and it is a surprisingly easy way to manage website credentials. PIP is a a single sign in solution that supports both OpenID (you are issued a Verisign OpenID) and direct sign in to a number of supported websites. If a site doesn’t support OpenID, login is handled by populating the

Aug. 20, 2008 10:41 PM

Cranky Geeks Episode #130 - Now On Cage Match

Click image to see Cranky Geeks. Today’s Guests: Sebastian Rupley, Co-Crank, PCMagCast.com Patrick Norton, Managing Editor, Revision3 Annaliza Savage, Multimedia Editor, Wired The Topics: USB 3.0 Coming Soon Psychologists Give Thumbs Up to Games 3G iPhone Plagued By Dropped Calls What’s the Value of Online Comments? Dell Can’t Trademark Cloud Computing

Aug. 20, 2008 09:00 PM

Reading and Writing Local Files in Flash Player 10

One of the new features in Flash Player 10 are new ActionScript FileReference APIs that allow Flash content to directly read and write data to the user’s system. Prior to Flash Player 10, in order to read or write a file to the user’s system, Flash content would first have to bounce it off of a server, and then load it back to the users system before it could be accessed. This was not only a hassle to program, but added additional application latency and resource usage. The new funct

Aug. 20, 2008 02:52 PM

ISUG eJournal

The International Sybase User Group (ISUG) have announced that they now have an electronic version of the ISUG Technical Journal is now available online ...

Aug. 20, 2008 01:12 PM

How to Tell If Your Boss Is Crazy

Over at the American Express blog I explain how to tell if your boss is crazy based on the work of Mindsite to DSM-IV-TR bring to the rest of us. If you suspect that you work for a narcissistic, paranoid, obssessive-compulsive, anti-social nut case, click here to learn more. Related resources: "Is Your Boss an Asshole?" and Psychology.alltop.

Aug. 20, 2008 12:00 PM

Summer 2008 road trip

Good morning everybody! This is Dave coming to you from Salt Lake City, UT. I'm on my Summer 2008 road trip. Started yesterday at 4AM, and got me into SLC at about 4PM. Stops include Laramie, WY; Boulder CO and on to Denver on Sunday for the Democratic National Convention. Then four days of watching, listening, talking, and thinking and then back on the road to do it all again! I tried to set up a LAN in my car, to no avail. There isn't much Sprint EVDO on the road between Reno and Salt Lake.

Aug. 20, 2008 06:02 AM

CEP vs. BRE - A TIBCO TTL (Top Ten List)

My colleague, Paul, got lots of… let’s call it, “feedback” regarding his post on the impending demise of the standalone Business Rule Engine (BRE) Market. It seems there are lots of folks out there who feel quite passionate about the subject, so I thought I would continue, albeit from a different angle and relate it back to the CEP and BusinessEvents for comparison. So… taking my cue from David Letterman and with a tip o’ the hat to Paul, here are the: Top

Aug. 19, 2008 07:01 PM

Web Services Manifesto - RESTful Architecture and the Programmable Web

In this first post of many, I will be giving my personal opinion on the state of Web Services programming today. This post covers my thoughts on REST.

Aug. 19, 2008 08:31 AM

Worst. News analysis. Ever.

This could well be it. Of course, it may be fabricated, in which case, it’d be much less awfully funny, and funnily awful. [Tags: humor media ]

Aug. 18, 2008 06:55 PM

Flex Builder 3.01 and Flex SDK 3.1 released

With no fanfare, or even mention on adobe's website, Adobe has officially released Flex Builder 3.01 and the Flex SDK 3.1. Prior to the 3.01 release of flex builder, developers building AIR 1.1 applications had to go through a series of ext

Aug. 18, 2008 06:11 PM

Are Mashups the 'Agile' Part of Web 2.0?

I've been into computers since I was 4 years old. I went to an esteemed (so they tell me) computer science school, or at least that's what they tell me. I've worked for every kind of software shop: the Big 6 (now 4) consultancies, a couple of startups, and even 'the Big O' (yes, Oracle). So I thought I was familiar with most techniques, theories and approaches to software development. Well, it seems I missed one.About 8 weeks ago Deepak Alur, JackBe's ever-vigilant VP of Development, sent me

Aug. 18, 2008 10:49 AM

Will make three presentations in the next two days

Tomorrow, I'll be speaking in New York City at Enterprise Flex symposium. If you can't make it, on Wednesday, I'll be speaking in the evening at New Jersey Flex Users group (see http://www.njflex.com/ for details).Also, if you are a

Aug. 18, 2008 10:03 AM

FindBugs and PMD applied on J2EE 5

A list of project adaptations required to produce zero-errors reports with PMD and FindBugs while keeping the code fully compliant with J2EE 5.

Aug. 17, 2008 02:40 PM

Razor Profiler - An Automated JavaScript Profiling Tool

Razor Profiler (beta), an online Ajax profiling tool, is available for public review now at http://www.razorspeed.com. What Is it? Razor Profiler(beta) is a web-based Ajax profiling tool to help web developers understand and analyze the runtime behavior of their JavaScript code in a cross-browser environment. Razor Profiler can be access either online as a service; or be downloaded to run locally. Some Razor Profiler screen shots are shown below: .imageLis

Aug. 16, 2008 10:47 PM

Bruce’s Loo

Yesterday was the final day of UX Week 2008, and our final speaker was Bruce Sterling. Though I’d heard of Bruce during the rise of cyberpunk, I was never all that aware of him until I attended South by Southwest Interactive in 1999. He was a legendary presence at the event, both providing the final thoughts to the attendees, and hosting a rocking party at his house. I had the fortune of Bruce speaking at another event of mine, IDEA 2006, where he did a remarkable job of summarizing the pr

Aug. 16, 2008 06:19 PM

ICOODB 2009, July 1-3, 2009, ETH Zurich

The second International Conference on Object Databases (ICOODB) will take place at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), on July 1-3, 2009.The ICOODB 2009 Conference Chair is Moira C. Norrie.I`d also like to inform you that a Steering Committee for the future series of ICOODB conferences has been created.The Steering Commitee is composed of:Mike Card, Mike Card, Syracuse Research Rick Cattell, consultant, William Cook, University of Texas at Austin, Stefan Edlich, FH BerlinMoira C. Norrie, ETH ZurichJam

Aug. 16, 2008 06:12 AM

Friday - Trip home from TechWave

Only thought it was worth mentioning because of the weather. I’m driving back because I’m just going to LA. It takes a long to drive to Vegas from my house as it does to fly, and driving is (IMHO) more convenient. It’s 106 degrees

Aug. 14, 2008 11:47 PM

Twitter kills inbound SMS to UK.....

I received an email in my Inbox today to say that Twitter had killed off inbound SMS updates to the UK.The whole raison d’etre for my subscribing to and using Twitter was to get real-time updates. If I have to login to a Twitter app then what’s the point ? It’s no better, and actually worse than reading RSS. The guys at Twitter twitter on about it being costly, yada yada yada. Well they knew this when they started the service. The challenge for their exec team was to

Aug. 14, 2008 09:34 AM

More on Cloud Computing from Dion Hinchcliffe

Dion Hinchcliffe recently provide a comprehensive overview of the status of cloud computing for the enterprise in his post, Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam. It is a good article for spinning your knowledge up on what this trend means today. He starts with the comment, ???The days when organizations carefully cultivated vast data centers consisting of an endless sea of hardware and software are not over, at least not yet. However, the groundwork for their eventual transformation and dow

Aug. 14, 2008 12:02 AM

Harmony

Brendan Eich compared me to Yoda, and then to Gandalf. More recently, Mark Miller compared me to Henry Fonda because the meetings of the TC39 (the group that maintains the ECMAScript standard) played a lot like a prison theater production of 12 Angry Men.

Aug. 13, 2008 08:04 PM

Nature rules over robotics: Aibo toy-bone repurposed by puppy

Today our puppy discovered the pink toy-bone that originally came with the third generation of the Sony Aibo robotic dog: Sadly, the Aibo was canceled by Soiny in March 2006, but Fenway, our puppy, took possession and repurposed the pink Aibo toy-bone as a new chew-toy. It should be noted that the pink bone didn't last long. It's been proved once again: nature rules over robotics...

Aug. 12, 2008 05:27 PM

160+ TechWave Thank you's

Guys, Just a quick note to the presenters of the 160+ sessions at TechWave...

Aug. 12, 2008 09:51 AM

Brainstorming, italian style

While I should be officially on vacation since ten days, some job troubles have pursued me for a few days. Nevertheless, working in an enjoyable environment definitely boosts your productivity. In these days I'm pushing hard on fixing bugs and...

Aug. 12, 2008 07:23 AM

From deep within the bowels of SUN

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the SUN campus, where I was given a tour of a lab that makes James Bond's Q lab look like a childs room. We've forgotton what SUN actually do. Maybe they have too.Leave CommentRelated Entries:Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N810Speaking at CloudCamp LondonA simple Java API class for Amazon SimpleDBjava.lang.InternalError at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getResource()Google Web Toolkit Applications (Book Review)Google's GWT continues to amaze and delightOpen So

Aug. 7, 2008 07:50 AM

Nailguns and my 9-year old

My wife has allowed me to let my 9-year old daughter use a nailgun.

Aug. 6, 2008 10:26 AM

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Bruce’s Loo

Posted: Aug. 16, 2008 06:19 PM

She was right — it does take a village!

Yesterday I attended my second (and final) Preparing for Childbirth class at Kaiser Permanente, and, upon leaving, my thoughts focused on the ohmygodcrucial need for a support group in order to make this a fully positive experience. We live in a str

Posted: Aug. 11, 2008 01:08 AM

An anthropological introduction to YouTube

Michael Wesch is one of my personal heroes. Beginning with “The Machine Is Us/Ing Us,” he’s brought a fresh, thoughtful perspective to the social media that are (re)shaping our lives. His “A Vision of Students Today” is

Posted: Aug. 5, 2008 10:45 AM

January 17, 2001: Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over

Reading this article from The Onion written over 7 years ago is sickening, because for a putative humor magazine, nearly every damn thing they predicted came true.

Posted: Jul. 31, 2008 04:01 AM

Adaptive Path Events News - Online, in SF, and in Copenhagen

So many things happening with our events over at Adaptive Path. Use the promotional code FOPM when registering for any of these and receive 15% off. On August 6th, Brandon will be presenting a live virtual seminar on “Showing the Value of UX.&#

Posted: Jul. 30, 2008 01:57 PM

Learning

Reading an article in The New York Times on how Kids These Days are reading more and more online, and fewer books than their predecessors, and the concerns as to whether or not this is a good, bad, or neutral development, there’s a quote from e

Posted: Jul. 27, 2008 12:24 PM

Learning

Posted: Jul. 27, 2008 12:24 PM

Dark Zeitgeist - Needless Nihilism in Batman’s Bombast

Last night we went to see The Dark Knight. I try not to get my hopes up for superhero flicks, but the buzz around this one was so strong, I was definitely looking forward to it. Sigh. I found one review that agrees with how I felt, and I shouldn̵

Posted: Jul. 27, 2008 12:04 PM

Dark Zeitgeist - Needless Nihilism in Batman’s Bombast

Posted: Jul. 27, 2008 12:04 PM

Denver Art Museum’s technology-enabled experiences

At FOO Camp I met Bruce Wyman, the Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum (He occasionally blogs on the Museum’s site.). For the past few years at UX Week, we’ve had museums (first in D.C., now in SF) share with us how they desig

Posted: Jul. 21, 2008 01:11 AM